Americans’ confidence in the police has edged back up this year after dropping last year to its lowest point in 22 years. Currently, 56% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the police, four percentage points higher than in 2015. Confidence is essentially back to where it was before a series of highly publicized incidents involving white police officers and young black men in several communities across the country. CONT.
Frank Newport, Gallup